Version 1.6, July 24, 1997 Price: Free!<br />
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Virtue is my improvement of Apple Computer's "Charcoal" font appearing in Mac OS<br />
8.<br />
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About Virtue<br />
There is a lot of controversy about this font, and honestly, I think that most of<br />
it is unjustified. Basically, a lot of people did not want this font to appear in<br />
the Mac OS 8. I think that this feeling is based on a "reverse-engineered" font<br />
developed by Greg Landweber for his Aaron extension and Kaleidoscope control<br />
panel. Greg built his font from looking at various screenshots and did a good job<br />
at making a very complete font. However, the spacing information and special<br />
characters characters seemed a little off to me. It seems that Apple couldn't<br />
decide whether Charcoal should have two pixels between the letters or just one.<br />
This leads to a cramped appearance on screen.<br />
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So here's what I did: basically, I took his work and tried to space it how I<br />
would if I was making Apple's next font. I studied the "Chicago" system font and<br />
and used it as a template for my font. After about 2 hours of tinkering, I had a<br />
bitmap font that looked really good as a replacement font for Kaleidoscope. About<br />
a week later, after tinkering some more, I made even more improvements.<br />
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Feel free to tell me how you feel about this font, good or bad. If you have some<br />
specific criticisms, I'd love to hear them, so I can improve Virtue. My email<br />
address is <wamozart@teleport.com> Also check my web page for updates at:<br />
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<http://www.teleport.com/~wamozart/><br />
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Installation Instructions (for Wiondows 95)<br />
1. Drag the "Virtue1.ttf" file to your open Fonts folder<br />
2. Open the "Display" control panel and click on the "Appearance" tab<br />
3. Click on "Active Window" and change the font to Virtue (make sure that the<br />
point size is set to 9 pt and that bold and italic are *not* selected)<br />
4. Click on "Normal" and change the font to Virtue (make sure that the point size<br />
is set to 9 pt and that bold and italic are *not* selected)<br />
5. Click on the "OK" button at the bottom and you'll be all set!<br />
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Freeware Notice<br />
You don't need to pay a cent for this font. In fact, I will refuse to take any<br />
money for it at all. Please, I'm begging you, NO MONEY!!!!! If you want to spend<br />
some money, take a look at some of my other fonts on my web site. I do retain all<br />
rights to this font, so don't even think about trying to sell it. I mean really,<br />
how tacky could you get.<br />
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Version History<br />
1.6--First Windows 95 release. (July 24, 1997)<br />